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Monday, December 28, 2015

Middle Class as Defined by Hillary and the Vote Getting Dems

Keenan posted earlier today about Hillary-isms.

So I thought it appropriate to describe what she and the rest of the Dems mean when they talk about not raising taxes on the middle class.

My guess is that their definition is vastly different than yours or mine, or that of anybody else, for that matter, who's interested in plainly and accurately communicating the meaning of the words chosen.

Those
families who make $250,000 a year, on the other hand, belong to an
elite group: Americans who earn enough to be in the highest 5 percent of
the income distribution....

This
doesn’t matter just because the math is so off. In an era of deepening
income inequality, those people in the top 5 percent who are being
classified as middle class are pulling further away from the rest of us.
Americans at the bottom or in the middle have experienced five years of
falling or stagnating income; those in the top 5 percent have generally
seen their incomes increase. Between 1967 and 2014, median household
income went up by $9,400 while those 5 percenters are now making $88,800
more, all adjusted for inflation. . . .

But under Mrs.
Clinton’s pledge, some of the well off won’t be called on to help out,
and are in fact lumped in for receiving a boost."

Summing Up

Middle class is whatever the vote seeking politician says it is, I guess.

And Hillary is definitely a politician fighting for every vote she can get.

In her view, what difference does it make? Words mean whatever she says they mean.